Anticreeper rail plate



J OHN SLOVEY, O7) KENNETT, QZLLIHE'OBLKTIEA.

ANTICREEPER RAIL Application filed April 17,1922. Serial No. 553,777.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that .1 JOHN E. Srovm; a

citizen of the United States, resi :it Kennett, in tie count; of Shasta.and ate it' California h are invested certain new and usefulImprovements in riint-icreeper Rail Plates, of which the EOllOWing isaspeciacotion.

The present invention relates to tie plstes de nod to etl'ectii'ely holdrailroad rails from creeping" or moving" longitudinally,

The object is to pro; do a simple, practical. or thoroughly eiiectiveoevice which can he cheaply nuinutactured and can he easi y placed in.position and removed, pormitti 55 z: correspondinn posit-ioniig andremoval. of the rail.

in the accompanying: drawinos:

l igzure 1 is a plan View of portion of s rail showing two of the tieplate: in positlon thereon Figure 2 is a VGIiJlCELl sectional. View onthe line 22 01": Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a! perspective ricw of the plate,

Figure l is a perspective View of the holding wedge In the embodimentdisclosed the plate con sists of 3- body 5 provided in its upper sidewith a recessed. seat 6 of the Width of the rail base 7. It will. henoted by reference to Figures 2 and. that the side Walls 8 oi this seatare vertical and consequently it Hill can he vex-ti ally (lFCpPQ/(l intoplace and to moved. Spike reccivin;3 openings 5) :u'c formed in theplate on one side oi the seat end directly djacent thereto so that thehoods o1 spikes driven through said openings will overlap the rail ho asillustrated in Figure 2. in the opposite side of the sen?-v there is aspike receiving opening 1.0 directly adjacent to the seat so that :1Spike driven therethrough will have its head overlying the rail hose andbetween said opening 10 and the opposite side of the plate there isformed a tapered socket 11 having inner side opening into the seat 6 anddesigned to receive plain faced holdii'ig Wedge This socket has itsbottom in the same plane as the hottoin of the seat 6. A secondspikereceiving opening 13 is formed in the plate outside the said socket11.

Wit-h this construction, the plate can he placed upon a tie and the raildropped into the seat. When properly positioned the spikes can be drivenand afterwards the Wedge 12 inserted and tightened l1. hlou's againstits exposed end. It will. evident that when the wedge is in place anytendem of th rail to creep Will simply tighten the predate and react andthus form a lirmer winding notion. that will etlectively lock the rail.

' y these plates can he made right and left Wedges as illust 17 in 2% iure 1 and may he reversed so as to hold t t may tend to creep or morelongitudinally. From the foregoing it is their that the OOHSiJIITCEiOlLoperation and many edmu 2 ages of the (lS('1.ll -z1l ini'eution w ll iipm'eut to those sled in the srt. without further des: *iption, and itwill he understood that various changes 1 the slug shopsa proportion andminor (let-e of construction, may he resorted to Without depsrtino fromthe spirit or sacrificing any oi. the a. antziees of the invention.lilsvin g thus fully described my invention. rrhot l luiin us new. anddesire to sccure by l ietters Patent is:

tin anti-creeper tie plate for rsilioml rai s 1: nipiising hotly havingit recessed rail hose receiii 1" seat in its pper side subtally the v iithe r. hose and hea suhstentio LlClll side i ills that pew mit thevertical removal and oi the E ii hose. said body being 0 i pro- \li lspil-:;e-rcceivino openings on onsiocr oil and 3: Sell; ose on bothsides to cut iilu'ou ii the o1 lo l it s u ilo staid Werlie the w pmmore hnvi 1 is bottom in the plane of the bottom. of t seat and plainsided we? slidehlv on to hear a, rail hose :top short of the spike-rc-(78iVll1 Q' ononii 3,; siiid tie plate further huring' snilte-receii'ing opening: on the outer side of the tapered socket.

lln testimony whereof, I sill): my sign sture in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOHN E. snovnr. Witnesses J. I. RESH, J. H. Teams.

